Big Quote by Bill Foster

Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

— Gary Hamel

The statistics for investing in small businesses are such that the vast majority fail.

— Theo Paphitis

“In fact, trying to grow too big, too fast is one of the top—and perhaps the saddest—reasons that small businesses fail.”

— Christy Wright

Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into…

— Carol Roth

If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

— Bernie Sanders

Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't…

— William Least Heat-Moon

Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees.

— Michael LeBoeuf

In the restaurant business, if you break even, you're lucky. It's a really hard business, it's a survival business.

— Dominique Crenn

All businesses make mistakes. The trick is to avoid large ones.

— Carlos Slim

You can't afford to be afraid of failure in this business.

— Vikram Bhatt

The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.

— Gary Hamel

We must learn the lessons of the 2008 crash: no company should be able to become too big to fail.

— Barry Gardiner